Seems like in this case the GPS trap is the police's, maybe they like it better if it's their own idea.
In the dystopian near-future, Amazon will start offering police departments these kinds of bait packages so they can reduce package theft...
In the dystopian near-future, Amazon will start offering police departments these kinds of bait packages so they can reduce package theft...
... I guess we already have those for corporations, so extending it to individuals can't be much worse. But there's currently little meaningful competition to shake out what small-scale policies are better (e.g., the question of how much your police should care about package theft probably has basically the same answer throughout all of American suburbia) and it'd be interesting to see if people make the markets work efficiently (and leave ghost towns in the wake of bad decisions).
Not saying that's what happened -- lots of people might be pissed about the package-theft epidemic -- but it certainly could.